That’s a Win! (Hour 2)

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James Mahan, the mic. Set behind that one. Yes. I'm here.

We're here to have some fun. And we are.

Man, I'm losing your voice. I cleared my name.

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I apologize everybody. We are here to have some fun.

And we got some great things lined up for you.

In a little bit, we're going to get into an interesting one about franchises that haven't been seen in 20 years.

Big time movie franchises that haven't been touched.

And by us bringing them up, they probably will be brought back.

All that's coming up for you. Sure they will.

We'll get into our local schedule as well. We got some great good stories of the day for you.

And some great local events we want to touch on as well.

Always. All that coming up. But we begin with entertainment news.

And Jimmy Kimmel delivered what might have been the most anticipated monologue in late night recent late night history.

Recent late night history. It's not go get over our skis here.

You know, that's the what the article was saying.

And I'm correcting that in mid sentence.

Right. There is no way that is the most anticipated ever.

I would say that I don't know Johnny Carson's last show.

Conan's last show. There's a lot of them out there.

That really rank higher. And that was back when more people were interested in what was going on in late night television.

Which is a lot less now. Yeah.

No, no, a spursion to Jimmy Kimmel. But yeah.

He thanked everyone who supported him during his suspension, including conservatives like Ted Cruz who spoke out in support of free speech.

He also got emotional when he said he had never intended to quote make light of the murder of a young man.

He also said he understood why some people thought his remarks were quote either ill timed or unclear or maybe both.

And of course he made his jokes and everything.

But I feel like Jimmy Kimmel did what Jimmy Kimmel did before this.

Yeah.

Did anybody actually listen to what he said and what he got suspended for?

Because he did not say anything insane.

He did not he did not make light of anything.

No, he wasn't he was merely trying to bring to light what was happening and what is continuing to happen.

Yeah.

The person that did this is a part of an extreme part of the mega right.

Yeah.

That's that's fact.

You can't deny that.

We have the evidence of that.

Right.

Our judicial system is working on it right now.

The person that was affected by this that was taken from this is a part of the right.

Is a man who if this was me, if it was me in that chair, Charlie Kirk would be laughing.

He'd be laughing with his buddies about it.

Like there's no doubt in the world in that.

He has given you that.

Take people on the words that they say.

Right.

Not what you want them to say or what you want them to mean.

Right.

Take them on the word.

Charlie Kirk told you who he was.

He did.

Or at least who the people that were in his pocket had him be.

Yeah.

We know that now again.

There are facts about these things.

These are not opinions I am saying.

Right.

There are facts that if you were actually looking for them, you can find them.

They're there.

Yes.

But the thing about this that I don't think enough people were seeing that I could not wait to talk to my mom and dad about

because I do they would get this because they raised this in me.

My mother has called me my whole life a rebel without a pause.

What that means from her is there are times where I have something that I'm passionate about and I care about.

And I have a good point.

And then there are times where I am just barking and I get passionate about something that nobody else in the world will.

But I can't stop myself.

Right.

And what happens when that happens?

My mom and dad were smart enough to realize you know what?

If we just let him get this out of his system, it's going to be alright.

Right.

And then there are things that they realized that if they took it away from me, all I did was want it more.

Exactly.

And I am no different than any other kid out there and guess what?

Adults.

Adults.

We don't grow out of that that much.

Right.

So what happens when you suspend Jimmy Kimmel?

What do you think is going to happen?

Oh, shocking.

Late night numbers shot through the roof.

Yep.

What happens when you say that you're going to get rid of the Colbert or the late night show and stuff?

Right.

Ratings through the roof.

Everyone's watching now.

Because they want to see what the response is, right?

Yeah.

Man, McDonald's is known this forever.

Why do you think that they make or they make shake or whatever?

The Shamrock Shake.

Shamrock Shake is not available 24-7 or the McRib.

They do that constantly with the McRib, right?

Disney Vault and Disney taking away movies and bringing them back.

Yeah.

This is Entertainment 101.

This is Marketing 101.

Right.

They did not, and they could not have set up the Jimmy Kimmel show better.

This was one of the best things to happen to late night television.

Yeah.

Nobody wants to say that.

And nobody, and nothing, and I would rather it not happen because of how much I care about free speech.

Exactly.

But given that we can't rewind the clock and time only goes one direction.

Regardless of how you feel about this issue, you have to look at this as what it is.

And it is the best thing that could have happened to late night television.

Yeah.

The ratings are through the roof, specifically for Jimmy now because of this.

Now, people who didn't care too figs about Jimmy Kimmel or his late night show may be interested now

and to hear what he has to say, which we know what he's been saying for the last couple of years, right?

So there you go.

There needs to be a respect and just a line in the sand when it comes to free speech.

Yeah.

It's one of those things that every single American, if you are a true American, you need to hold dear.

If you don't, there are a lot of countries that will take you.

If you don't care about free speech, Russia is just waiting for you.

They could use you right now because they got a war going on.

Lots of stuff going on, right?

Yeah.

It begins and ends with freedom.

It begins and ends with freedom.

And I stress both ends of that.

Right.

These kind of things matter.

This is just a silly little late night talk show.

What's the big deal or whatever?

What do you think a slippery slope starts with?

This stuff matters.

And it matters too that people like Ted Cruz said that.

Ted Cruz has no backbone.

We have seen that for years now.

For years.

None.

And he stood up for this.

What does that tell you?

It's foundational to this country.

For other countries, whatever.

We're not looking at that right now.

We're looking at this country right now.

Yeah.

And it has for 250 years.

I guess that's coming up, isn't it?

Yeah.

Anyway, we're not, what are we without it?

Seriously, what are we?

The FCC and the government is supposed to protect us.

They're busy protecting themselves.

Their focus is them.

Think about that.

That simple sentence I just said.

Government is meant to protect us.

They are focused on protecting themselves.

They are afraid of, I don't understand what, especially when you got all the power in the world.

And there's no more of the man to point your finger at.

You're the man.

Like, you got all the power, man.

Like, what are you afraid of?

Why are so many of these people running so scared and acting so cowardly?

I have never seen our government more cowardly.

Never.

I didn't think it was even possible to be honest with you.

Right.

And to me, this is the prime example of that.

If you have it, if nothing else has caught your attention,

the fact that they are going after freedom of speech.

Come on, man.

I mean, that is not the country that I love that I will die for.

That doesn't work for me.

I'm not going to take that city down.

And I don't care who is in office.

My dad was in office.

I'd be saying every single one of these syllables.

It's not, we can't have that.

And I don't know if we can have this.

I don't know if we can have this, everybody.

It's passionate about all that I just said.

I might be just as passionate about bringing back Baywatch.

Oh dear.

I'm not sure if we should.

Have we done, what have we done wrong?

Like, what did we do to deserve that?

So Fox has decided to bring back Baywatch.

A new version, by the way.

That will premiere during the 2026-27 season.

OK.

They're promoting this new version of Baywatch as, quote,

bring the California dream to a whole new generation of fans

with fresh stories, rising stars, and all the spectacle

that make the Baywatch franchise a global sensation.

20, 30 years ago.

May have added that in my life.

That might be a lot.

It didn't them there.

The show will feature, quote, all the adrenaline-fueled rescues.

Oh god.

Boy, this stretch.

That was where it's never been stretched more.

Tangled relationships, complicated chemistry,

and beach side heroics that define the original.

Now with an entirely new cast.

Well, because David Hasselhoff is old.

Seriously.

I mean, he was old when he did the deal.

Yeah, but we don't need to bring back.

You know, let him have his retirement.

The Hauss is not coming back.

The original Baywatch premiered on NBC in 1989

and ran one season there.

Then it moved to syndication for 10 more.

David Hasselhoff starts starred in that in 2s.

And a 2 season spin-off, Baywatch 9s.

I remember that.

From 95 to 97.

I do remember that.

Yeah, yeah.

I got.

I think I've ever seen a full episode.

So they've been trying to do these kind of like things.

Like Baywatch or Baywatch versions of this.

And none of them ever work.

No.

The only reason the other one worked is the timing of it in the 90s.

Exactly.

What you could get that wiggle room of things that we're like,

hey, wait a minute.

We shouldn't be doing that.

And also things being kind of like just still brought in

because we always did it that way.

Exactly.

That's the way I do it.

Honestly.

But we have to remember it was so big, man.

It was so huge.

And not just here, everywhere.

It was like a worldwide thing.

It was gigantic.

It was gigantic.

But I don't know if you can catch lightning in a bottle twice.

That's the thing.

Yeah.

I mean, that's the problem with a lot of these.

And we're going to get into this in a little bit.

We'll be franchising.

Yeah.

We'll be back in everything if you see a tie in here, everybody.

That was intentional.

Because for every franchise,

wow, they should probably bring that back.

There are ones that just, I don't know that modern audiences

work with.

We've already seen this with some stories where, you know,

oh, John Carter, this is an amazing story.

This is going to be a good, we got three, four films out of this.

Right.

And no biggest box office fail in Disney history.

Yeah, that's right.

It's wild to think, okay, that's not going to work.

But you know what?

We're going to make four, three hour movies about this group of seven people

traveling up a hill to throw away a ring.

Those are going to do fine.

Those are going to do gangbusters.

Those are going to do great.

I don't know how you predict these things or how you're sitting there.

They decide on them.

And honestly, I'll be completely honest about this.

I don't mind them doing this for complete comedic value.

Hey, you know, I'm going to waste the money.

Let them.

I'll laugh.

I will laugh at all of them.

Now Baywatch was always a great, you know, ironic watch.

I mean, it's like a fun, make fun of it while you're going along kind of.

Absolutely.

It was always good for that.

It took itself so seriously.

I thought that was part of the charm.

It was that, no, it was everyone did it with a straight face.

No one was like winking at the camera.

I think that's why it worked.

And it did set off a couple of careers.

It gave Hasselhoff a second life, a third life act.

Sure.

A couple of other actors that got breaks from that show.

Pamela Anderson did.

You know, where she is at now, so you don't send a big movie.

So yeah.

Sarah at Live announced the first round of hosts and musical guests for season 51.

And so far, it looks pretty interesting.

The show debuts on October 4th with host Bad Bunny and musical guest Doja Katz on October 11th.

Bunny and Katz.

Do they really go together?

Oh, that's pretty good.

I didn't catch that.

Nicely done, man.

Nicely done.

Amy Polar makes her return with musical guest role model on October 11th.

Cannot wait for that show.

Cannot wait.

And then on October 18th, Sabrina Carpenter will host and be the musical guest.

Oh, very nice.

So just the first round of October guests, but exciting, I think.

Yeah.

And great guests.

Now, one thing that I kind of don't like about this.

And I will say what I don't like about it, but I will also say why I understand it.

Usually, one of the things that I enjoy that Lauren does with this is he'll bring in a guest.

The first guest is somebody that usually hasn't hosted before.

And it's usually a big name.

Oftentimes, it's somebody coming off of a Super Bowl win or something like that.

Or a World Series win or something along those lines.

He doesn't do this, though, when bringing in a new cast.

So new cast, a lot of green face, a lot of people have never done this.

New faces, right?

Have no idea what live TV is like and what that is.

So that is chaos over there, unpredictability.

But with the host, I'm bringing in bad bunny who I believe this is his third or fourth time hosting.

And being on to show at least has been a recurring character has killed it every single time.

Amy Poler, obvious alum and is hosted before Sabrina Carpenter, who has been on there before.

And is one of the bigger names out there.

And she actually knew her as an actress well before I knew her as a singer.

And she was also been in sketch comedy, too.

So I think she's she'll be well prepared for this.

So there is there is I think a certain I don't obviously no Lauren Michaels.

But I believe that there is a certain pattern to this and looking back in the history of when they brought in new cast.

And look at who the opening host was.

Right.

More times than that it was a former cast member or something along those lines.

Or on the opposite end of it, Michael Jordan or a Peyton Manning who they're so green,

they're going to make the younger actors and the young stars look even more experienced.

And they get a get a pass because they're not actors.

They're sports people or whatever, right?

Yeah.

I am realizing and I knew this already.

But I'm realizing I'm saying this.

I have thought about this way too much and more than any other human being ever has.

I think that's very fair.

It's very fair.

It's very fair and sad.

All the same time.

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And before we go to break, I did want to do one more kind of behind the curtain look of On Golden Pond.

Yeah.

The fall premiere, the lead off hitter, if you will, for Wisconsin Rapids community theaters next season.

We are excited about this season.

You've got a Christmas song coming up, our variety show.

You've got our silver foxes doing some good programs.

Lots of great stuff coming up in the next couple of months.

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But it really kicks off tomorrow.

It does.

It does.

On Golden Pond.

Now technically to me, it kicks off tonight because we got a preview night.

Yeah.

But for the greater public.

Yes.

Tonight is opening.

Tomorrow night is opening night for on Golden Pond.

Last night I gave my last notes to the cast and my notes where I have no notes.

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My ears are blown.

How are yours?

I'm sorry.

I know the bumpers seem really hot.

They're a little bit hotter.

I guess it has to do with the new computer that we just had upgraded.

I'm guessing that's what it is.

Everything that was old is new and everything that was old and all that and everything.

And we have been making the joke for almost 20, maybe even longer than that years of

time.

Oh, they're bringing this back.

Oh, look at what they're bringing back or something like that.

Look at what they're trying to remake again.

And for everyone that can be a little successful or reimagined well, there are plenty of them

that just aren't very good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It seemed like basically a money grab.

And that kind of thing.

And that money grab is something that you and I have talked about quite a bit.

And I think you brought some good attention to in IP.

And how vital that is to the industry forever.

But in recent decades, it's become like almost all they do.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're not wrong.

Yeah.

So when it comes to that valued IP that say, like for example, Universal has all the classic

monsters.

Right.

They've got your, you know, mummy, they've got the Dracula and all that and everything.

So you're never going to probably see Universal not making movies like that.

Yeah.

In some way, shape or form, right?

Yeah.

There's a couple of months, there is two different Frankenstein type movies coming out.

One of them directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal that actually looks kind of interesting.

Oh, interesting.

But, you know, just to that point, this ain't going anywhere.

Right.

So with the movies that I'm about to mention, it's almost, the franchise is about to mention,

I don't know if it's a matter of, will this ever happen or win?

It's just a matter of win.

It may just, you might be right.

Yeah.

Because they're just going to keep running through these things.

Let me point to the movie Battleship, which is based on the board game Battleship.

Did horrible.

Yeah.

Although Rihanna wasn't it.

Yeah.

Well, that makes it a little bit, but still.

I never saw it though.

I never saw it.

No.

Every other movie is a remake, a reboot or a sequel, it feels like.

So it's surprising that there are 10 successful franchises that they have not touched in over

20 years.

Here they are.

Okay.

In no particular order.

I'm mentioning this one first because I want us to cast it with a modern actor.

Let's do it.

Dirty Harry.

Oh gosh.

1971 to 1988.

Of course, helped us.

I believe the Clinise Woods career was made by the spaghetti westerns, but a lot of people

in the 70s.

And the part of the me will tell you that Dirty Harry is what made him a household name.

Right.

And that's the late 70s.

But was there three of them?

Am I right?

There are at least three.

Yeah.

It was at least three because I remember the last one.

Yeah.

It didn't really do that well.

I remember correctly either.

The first couple were okay, but yeah, in terms of box office.

It is noteworthy in many ways because of not only the end of the franchise, but the end

of a career many people thought.

Many people believe that we would never see Clinise Woods again.

You might see him on Hollywood Squares or something.

I will always note Mr. Eastwood for taking that and being like, okay, watch what I can

do.

Yeah, right.

And winning an Oscar as a director.

And directing a whole bunch of really good movies, right?

Yeah.

One of the greatest American directors we've had.

Yes.

You know, period.

Absolutely.

He's good on Hollywood Squares.

So who would make a good anyway?

Could anybody make a good modern dirty hairy?

Oh, okay.

Well, we need someone really grizzled to do it.

My and a little bit older, I think, I think would work just fine.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

I love it.

He would be good.

He would be excellent as well.

Man, I had a bunch of joke now.

I was going to throw at Lee and Neeson and stuff for the other rock and everything.

Oh, you've been nailed and good.

There it is.

Because you got to be serious.

You got to take it, you can't wink at this one.

And he is so good at just playing these kind of really outrageous characters, very grizzled

characters, and just totally doing it straight.

And he does it awesome.

No one does it better than him.

Absolutely.

100% agree.

I would like to see a grizzle off between Clint Eastwood and Sam Elliott, a couple of other

ad Harris, maybe a little bit.

So, oh, no.

His name is escaping me.

Oh, my gosh.

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

I actually think that that series could have a chance.

I could see it.

I could see it having a chance.

You got it.

You got to do it right.

But yeah.

It does.

That one and the next one kind of are a little bit dicey because the police academy movies,

1984 to 1994.

Now both of these involve law enforcement and law enforcement and not the brightest of

lights.

Right.

For whatever reason.

One of the other.

I don't think the dirty hairy necessarily was that you could make technically a dirty

cop and all that.

Sure.

But at the same time, the audience rooted for him.

Yeah, they did.

Myself included as a little kid and everything.

When it came to that.

Now, now in modern times, I think we've done that, like the shield.

We've had how many TV shows, like actors like that, my PD Blue, even going back to them.

Yeah.

Almost every police drama that has come out since then has involved this little bit

of something.

I almost feel like you've kind of already done dirty area a number of times.

I don't know in that regard.

It could come back other than again, IP rights, police academy movies.

I think if you could write them and do them right, you would have a wonderful opportunity

of bringing a little human.

We have people out there that cannot, that when they see law enforcement, all they see

is a badge and they don't see the human being behind it.

And there are plenty of reasons for that.

Right.

When we see what our police departments are able to do with social media and how great

they are at it, I think that there's something right there.

There's something there that you could turn the police academy movies into something

that would be not making fun of, but still be comedic.

I think you need to do the Reno 9-1-1 route with it.

You need to do that kind of like almost found footage like Sudo documentary, you know,

style.

I love that.

They did a fantastic job with that one.

I mean, of writing that line, they did a really good job.

If you can do it like that, I think you'd be all right.

I think you could do it.

Airport, 1970, 1979, the airport movies are the airplane movies, I guess, on that.

There were airport movies, too, actually, back in the 1970s.

They were talking about that.

I don't know which one they're talking about, but either one.

I think going back CC, what we were talking about earlier with our airline industry right

now and flying.

I don't know that that's a topic you really want to touch.

Right.

Well, the airport movies were very serious.

There were disaster films basically in the sky, disaster in the sky kind of thing.

Yeah, I don't know.

That would be a hard one to bring back, especially with.

Like you said, the tenor of the times, that might not be good.

This one a little more interesting for different reasons.

Leith O'Wepp in 1987 to 1998, and of course, multiple movies, I believe, four, five, four,

five, yeah.

I think you're right.

Yeah.

Now, this one's interesting because they were so darn popular and they did so well,

I believe they did try to bring these back or something and it never happened or it didn't

work out well.

But there's also the Mel Gibson tie-in.

Right.

And Mel Gibson, one of the more toxic and I think overrated and jerk people that we've

ever heard from.

That's a jerk.

Yeah, jerk.

I mean, I can ramble about his anti-Semitism and all this stuff, but he's just a jerk

to be documented at this point.

Yeah.

And look at, again, very similar to other directors and actors I will bring up.

Look at how often the people wanted to work with them again.

They don't.

Nobody wants it.

You know, other than Danny Glover, basically, nobody wants to work with Mel Gibson on multiple

movies.

And that was different.

Right.

And that was before all the cancel stuff and everything.

Right.

I wonder if that cloud hangs over that franchise too much.

Well, then maybe that's why we have to recast it like that and we need to put, um, Daniel

Glover.

Oh, nice.

Because the, I mean, I'm sorry, uh, Donald Glover, sorry, he needs to take over for Danny

Glover.

He would do a really good job.

No, we have to recast the other guy.

Um, what do you think in here?

Do we need more action or do we need more humor?

So if you're going down a glove or you got a bit of a younger actor, not young, young,

but a bit younger.

So I think maybe a little bit of an older guy in the other room.

Oh, that's good.

I hadn't thought of that.

Yeah.

And I like the idea of, you know, flipping this too.

So keeping, I mean, with the model and everything.

So maybe an older white actor, um, you know, somebody along those lines.

Jason Stratham.

Uh, Stratham.

When he worked at what he was, yeah, he does comedy, he could do comedy comedy.

I think he'd be good.

And he's older for sure.

At this point, yeah.

Um, uh, you know, uh, there's a couple of actors there that work on that.

That's not bad.

That's not bad.

And then maybe he could just kind of redo it all over and make it better, right?

Billy Jack of 1967, 1977.

Wow.

Well, why did they throw that one in this group of, uh, you had sent this to me.

And I, that one was made me raise my eyebrows.

Yeah.

Why Billy Jack?

Was it even that popular?

I, I guess I don't know.

I think they were trying to fill out 10.

I think they wanted to have a full tent.

They were just screaming.

Uh, uh, Crocodile Dundee from 1986 to 2001.

I wonder if that one would be able to be done nowadays in part because so much of it

was in this is 80s comedy.

We take one thing and we all laugh at it, um, I mean, almost all these movies I mentioned

Yeah.

Uh, all have that one thing that was that you, they felt like everybody was laughing

at.

And so we can make fun of this.

Right.

You know, and all that.

Not laughing with the person who laughing at.

Oh, okay.

I feel comedy has moved very forward to we're laughing with not at somebody.

Yes.

Um, I, but for this one specifically, I think we got it because we need someone completely

unexpected.

They need to be Australian in order to do it correctly.

And that's why you cast Chris Hemsworth.

Yeah.

I think he would be fantastic in that.

They did do a, uh, a modern Crocodile Dundee with a bunch of Australian actors, but not

like in the garden.

You're talking about it.

Right.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Um, I've honestly, this is one of the review remakes.

I will say that I actually want to see.

Oh, okay.

And I want to see it not because I don't love the originals and everything, but because

I think that with modern camera work and stuntmen and all those things, boy, could they do

a cool job with it smoky in the band it from 1977 to 1983.

I love those movies.

I love Bert Reynolds.

I love Sally Field.

I'll admit that wholeheartedly.

I love car chases.

I admit all of that.

Okay.

Those movies, those car jumps and stuff.

They hold up to me.

Mm hmm.

They still are, they are incredible.

They do, they do a good job, you know, absolutely, but with modern tech and all these different

things, I feel like they could do such a cool job with those and it doesn't hold up

because CB's are not what they used to be and everything and a lot of that.

I know that there's some stuff that you'd have to update if you think.

Yeah, right.

I feel like it could be done.

Right.

I feel like it could be done.

But the only thing is, like, who do you get to, you could find someone like Bert Reynolds

like.

You could to be the lead in that kind of thing, but who do you, who do you cast as Jackie,

you know, the sheriff?

Jackie Gleason.

Yeah.

You'd have to, I mean, he was such a legend.

It's hard to do that with him and it was kind of an unexpected role for him too.

So, um, but he did a great job.

So I don't know.

That'd be the tougher part for me.

The next two on this list, they need to stay away from the Godfather in 1972 to 1990.

You cannot make the first Godfather better and you darn sure it's one of the best films

ever made.

Yeah.

And Godfather too may be the one that tops that.

Yeah.

It's one few time where you might be able to say the sequel is better than the first one.

There's no dirt.

You cannot convince me.

I don't care what cast you put in front of me.

You could put me in the cast and I don't but well, you know, you can't give me those

two movies cannot be made better.

You can't.

If you want to make the third one fine, that's fine.

I love you.

That was not very good.

They just rebate the third Godfather.

That's it.

Let's do it right this time, right?

Yeah.

And back to the future, 1985 to 1990.

Yeah.

Again, I don't know that you can remake those better.

The, the, the chemistry between Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd was just so good.

I, man, that would, I would have, I would have struggled with that one.

I would really have a hard time doing anything with that one.

And, and a lot like some of these other things that we've been talking about here, man, it

also, I don't know the timeline wise.

It adds up like modern audiences to be able to get into it.

Can you, can you do that?

No.

No.

They just be, it just be all fan service.

That's all it would be in.

I'm not interested.

We will take a quick time out.

We'll come back.

But I do want to hear from you guys out there.

If one of these franchises you would watch a new version of, or if you would like to

see them do that.

Right.

Or is there one we didn't mention you'd like to see?

Right.

Hit us up through the civic media app.

Let us know everybody.

Be a part of the conversation.

We'll come back and have some more fun after this.

Welcome back, everyone.

Morning show at WFHR, locally grown radio, Seth and James here with you.

God, there's something about bagpipes and in my soul.

That's right.

I love it.

We hope you're all having a great one out there.

Thanks so much for joining us over here, everybody.

Interesting one that came across.

Just one of the touch on this one before we wrap up and get to our final segment coming

up here.

JD Powers Annual Airport Satisfaction Survey shows the overall scores improved by 10 points

on 1,000 points scale from last year to this year.

How airports are doing?

What are the least alike airports?

The best and worst airports according to flyers.

Okay.

And this is all according to flyers.

That's what JD Power does and all that and certainly no worthy, I think, there among

mega airports.

The top 10 are Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport.

Yes.

I have to admit, I've been there many, many times.

I'm sure a lot of people out there who flown, it's a hub.

So there's a lot of people that go through Minneapolis and I have to say it's one of the

better laid out ones.

It's one of the better with amenities.

You know, they've got the tram there to get you back and forth quickly.

It's a nice airport.

I have to agree.

I make no bones about it.

Oh, hair airport is always going to be like a hometown team to me.

I love that airport.

I've got a lot of nostalgia and memories to it.

I have never been in a nicer airport.

Not only the look and the way it was kept up, there was, but the people, then that airport

in particular, right?

It's a pretty airport.

Yeah.

It's nice.

Shockingly nice.

Yeah.

It's laid out perfectly.

I could not tell you how, like, out of sorts I was and what a rush I was in that day.

I was when I was moving to California.

My flight was late and all that.

I've never dealt with people nicer to me.

Right.

They set me up so well because of that.

I, my airport is really nice.

One of my oldest I'm sure is still convinced you had the best meal ever at the video.

It's airport at the restaurant we stopped at.

So I think it stands out too because we've had to lower our bar so much with airports.

Oh, yeah.

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.

I've heard great things about that one.

Yes.

It's not bad either.

Now that one's basically like a straight line.

So the whole thing is set up that way.

So I would say if it's got one thing over Minneapolis is that it's easier to move around

and it's very quick to get to where you need to go.

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.

Never been.

Never been to that one either.

But I've heard good things.

And I've been to the Delas Fort Worth International Airport.

That's a nice airport.

It's a little actually smaller than you would expect for a Dallas airport.

Right.

But I thought it was laid out very well.

Yep.

I thought that was the one I've somehow I've missed that one.

I'm not sure how, but I have not been there.

Harry Reid International Airport in Vegas.

If you've flown in Vegas, you have flown that airline.

And that one is not an airport.

It's a circus.

It's it's Vegas.

It's Vegas.

It's Vegas.

Everything even the airport's got to be that way.

It really is.

I don't think it's bad though.

I don't think it's a bad airport.

It's just, you know, you're going there and you forget that you're out of the airport.

You know where you are in other words.

Yeah, exactly.

I could I don't know if I've ever looked more like a tourist in my life than any the time

I spent in Vegas than a couple of hours I spent in Vegas.

Right.

I could not stop looking around at things.

John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

The one I never get to.

Yeah, I've never been there.

I'm always in LaGuardia.

That's the always place I end up in New York is LaGuardia.

Yeah.

I'm a little surprised to see them on there just because it feels like so many people

make fun of that airport.

But I guess, you know, it doesn't mean that it's probably better than LaGuardia though

they've done some upgrades at the LGA.

A couple of Florida ones back to back Orlando International Airport and Miami International

Airport.

The layout of Orlando is very nice and I like the way they they have it set up.

There's a hotel like in the main area where you can stay if you obviously stay in hotels.

But it's actually you can tell it's built for a lot of traffic because it's Orlando.

You know, that's where all the theme parks and stuff are.

San Fran and Boston wrap this up.

The bottom two are Newark Liberty and Toronto Pearson International.

Oh.

To Toronto.

Really?

Oh, interesting.

Among larger airports, John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Tampa International Airport,

Dallas Love Field, Kansas City International Airport, and Raleigh Durham International Airport.

Hmm.

Interesting.

Raleigh Durham.

Usually when I know Charlotte is the one.

If I've ever flown into North Carolina, it's Charlotte, so.

And the bottom two are Philadelphia International Airport and Montreal.

Among the medium airports, Indianapolis International Airport, Ontario International Airport in

Southern California, Buffalo, Niagara International Airport, Jacksonville International Airport,

and Palm Beach International.

Okay.

And the bottom two there are Edmonton and Cleveland Hopkins International.

Okay.

I've been to that one.

I have not been to that one.

Yeah, I've been to that one.

The Akron, but not Cleveland.

The study based on more than 30,000 surveys from US or Canada residents who traveled through

North America airports in the past year, they asked about, quote, ease of travel, level

of trust, terminal facilities, airport staff, experiences leaving and arriving, food, retail,

and beverages.

I have to say, talking about Wisconsin, because none of them ended up on any of these lists

here of the airports.

And I've been to a few in airports here.

I've got some, I think most of them are pretty darn good.

Madison has a nice airport, Dean County, is very good.

That's a double choice.

Ah, Appleton is a nice little airport there, too.

And of course, Central Wisconsin, up here.

Again, I like smaller airports, because they're not as crazy as the big ones.

So that's one of the reason I'm biased, because I like the smaller ones.

I've flown out of every airport in this state, and I've enjoyed all of them.

I would say that Madison, I've flown out of the most, and I enjoy the most.

I like Madison.

And I will admit, though, I know that one, like, the back of my hand.

Sure.

So that's part of it.

Right.

But I really like that one.

Milwaukee's got a nice airport, too.

Milwaukee's not bad at all.

It's fun.

And I'm with you on the small airports.

There's so much nicer.

Yeah.

There's something about it, too.

Yeah.

I agree.

I think you're taking a cab almost.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah, I enjoy it.

I enjoy it.

We've enjoyed this show.

It's been a lot of fun.

We're coming back with one more segment for you on this Wednesday, everybody.

It's morning show at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning show here at 97.5 FM, 13.20 AM, locally grown radio, Seth and James taking to

the top of the hour, coming up, nothing but great civic media program, along with,

of course, those key words for the go for the green or gold text to win statewide.

Multi-state contest we have going on.

Big thank you to our local sponsors, Rapids Transmission for that.

Be listening because for the rest of the day, at the top of the 11 o'clock, 1, 3, 5 and

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Be listening for that, everybody.

Big shout out to everybody who's been playing along.

Yeah.

One of them will let everyone know our schedule for today.

We've got a great one lined up for you in the Rapids report.

We're talking to the ODC.

Our great friends at the ODC are going to join us.

And Lee Peck will be here.

I love talking with Anne.

I bet you they're going to talk about the Halloween, the haunted house they do.

That's so awesome.

Yeah.

We are definitely talking about the haunted house.

Not believe how popular it's gotten in just a couple of years.

It's amazing.

So cool.

It's a fun one week.

I look forward to being talking about that coming up, everybody.

And Seth, it is a Wednesday.

We know what that means.

Why?

It's bingo night, everybody.

It's bingo at the Wisconsin Rapids Outslides number 693.

Door is open at 5.

Bingo starts at 630.

Go there and support them to help them support all the great stuff they do in this

community, everyone.

So it's a great fun way to support them.

And we have coming up very shortly.

In fact, James just did a little interview on Rapids Report this week with our good friends

over at the Arts Council and the show that we got coming up on October 9th at 730.

And that is the at the Performing Arts Center at the PAC, everyone.

It is the magic of Willie Nelson with Willie and family live.

This is a great tribute group of the Red Headed Stranger.

And of course, we always encourage you to go over to the website to get your tickets

right now, everyone.

It is saverthearts.com.

Get them 24-7.

You can also stop by their offices at 1048th Street South Suite 101 during the business

hours.

10-2 Monday through Thursday or give them a call 715-424-2787 during those same times.

If you need a little help getting those tickets there, be very happy to do that.

But we are very excited.

We are a WI should say WIRI is a sponsor of this show.

And we hope to see you there because we're going to be showing up, everyone.

We're going to help Sally do a little few introductions there.

That's going to be so cool.

I love that addition to this.

It's a really nice move by you and the team.

And I appreciate Sally so much.

We've got tickets.

We'll be giving away.

Yes.

For that.

I'll be listening for that next week.

Yes.

And one of my favorite interviews I've done in a long time.

Michael was awesome.

Not only does he sound exactly like Willie Nelson when you're just talking to him.

That's just great.

That's just how he sounds.

He is so talented, everybody.

You want to take in this show.

The fact that you don't have to travel two hours to see this show.

That's amazing.

Right in town here.

It's right here.

Check that out, everybody.

Great people we got to talk to yesterday.

Where's our friends over at the Girl Scouts of Northwestern Great Lakes.

They have a wonderful open house going on today, from five to seven, over at Camp

Secondiawayia, 3910 Chestnut Street right here in Lappeds.

Go and check that out.

All kids in K through 12 grades.

We come on down, check this out.

This is not only one of the greater organizations in history, really, but just a great opportunity

for those young ladies out there.

I encourage you to check out that interview to learn more and show up and ask them yourself.

Yeah, if you're interested at all, it's a great way to get some more information.

Come learn more about Girl Scouts and they'll do a sample Girl Scout activities.

You can sign up for Girl Scouts.

Learn more about our Scouts.

The Girl Scouts of Northwestern Great Lakes from five to seven today, over at Camp Secondiawayia,

right here in Lappeds.

Nice.

Thank you for giving me an excuse to say Camp Secondiawayia.

It's fun.

It's a fun word to say.

That word will be able to say that word.

Our great friends at the United Way of Southwood and M's counties have their day of caring coming

up Saturday, October 25th.

Encourage you to sign on up.

And if you know somebody that needs a lawn mowed or raked, raked with some ball, please

rate, you know, go ahead and submit it.

But of course, we're looking for teams.

More teams, the more lawns we can do.

It's as simple as that.

Be a part of the community, everybody.

Yeah.

And I gotta say, someone who's done this last four years, I think, now, wow.

It's a great day.

You feel so good just helping out, just pitching in, giving a hand, man.

It is a great feeling.

And of course, these are, these are folks who need help.

So it's a win-win for all strangers, helping strangers, but you don't stay strangers.

You do not.

You will make new friends doing this.

You will.

You haven't been.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a wonderful event.

And it's, there are certain events where we really, you just can't put in the words

the feeling that you get being a part of this.

We had Terry and the other day and she broke some news for us.

They're going to be green shirts this year.

It's green this year.

So when you see that sea of green throughout the city and everything, and be a part of it,

you are going to be feeling like one.

And we need more of that in our community.

We do.

More than that.

More than our world right now.

We do.

Get to uswac.org to sign up and be a part of things with us coming up.

And of course, be listening this week.

Terry will be joining us in a couple of days, or tomorrow.

And we hear tomorrow.

Yeah, actually.

And we'll talk a little bit more about it.

We do have some good stories of the day to get to, but real quick, I did want to, again,

one more time before we wrap up this new year in Rosh Hashan for, not just my people,

but for the world.

I want to say Lesha, no tova, to everybody out there.

And what, you know, for those that don't know what Rosh Hashan is and what it means.

And why am I rambling about it on a radio station where let's be honest, the majority of

you out there are Gentiles.

Yeah, right.

Maybe you've never been met someone of Jewish persuasion, right?

But that's why.

Yeah, that's why I am.

It's not only does that hopefully kill antisemitism and kill the unknown, because that is what

we fear oftentimes is the unknown.